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Title |
Author |
Novelist
Blurb |
Born
Free |
Adamson,
Joy |
When
game warden George Adamson is forced to kill a lion and lioness,
he and his wife Joy adopt their three cubs. Two are sent off to zoos
but the third is kept, a female they name Elsa. When Elsa is fully
grown, the Adamsons realize she must be taught to survive on her
own. |
| The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Franklin, Benjamin | |
| Roots | Haley, Alex | Captured in Africa, Kunta Kinte, a tribal prince, becomes a slave, and eventually generations of his family survive to become free again. |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Hansberry, Lorraine | |
| Kon-Tiki | Heyerdahl, Thor | Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Pacific expedition to prove that a balsa wood raft could travel from Peru to Polynesia. |
| Profiles in Courage | Kennedy, John | |
| The Prince | Machiavelli | Reflects on power and its abuse, on politics and man. Sets down rules and moves in the game of politics and the pursuit of power. |
| The Autobiography of Malcolm X | X, Malcolm | |
| Paradise Lost | Milton, John | Christian poetry |
| Utopia | More, Sir Thomas | Depicts an imaginary society free of private property, sexual discrimination and religious intolerance. |
| Never Cry Wolf | Mowatt, Farley | An unforgettable odyssey of self-discovery and startling adventure begins as Tyler, a young, inexperienced biologist, is deposited alone onto a frozen Arctic wasteland. Once settled, he struggles not only to endure the forces of nature, but also to learn as much as he can about the mysterious and misconstrued habits of the wolves he has been sent to study. (KRL) |
| Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | |
| The Aeneid | Virgil | An epic of Rome that is filled with mythology, history, and archaeology. It describes Aeneas' adventures at sea following the capture of Troy by the Greeks during the Trojan War. (KRL) |
| Up from Slavery | Washington, Booker T. | Biography |
| Leaves of Grass | Whitman, Walt | Poetry collection |